Joseph Timothy Thomerson is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Jack Deth in the Trancers film series, his work in numerous low-budget features, and his comedic television roles.

KNOWN FOR

Shameless
2011
Late Night with David Letterman
1987
Murder, She Wrote
1990
Hawaii Five-O
1978
Mannix
1975
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1999
Hill Street Blues
1984
St. Elsewhere
1987
Xena: Warrior Princess
1996
21 Jump Street
1989
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1997
The Golden Girls
1991

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
195
Crew
1
2025
Trancers: The Whole Dethly Affair
as Jack Deth
2023
Carnage Collection: Vicious Violence & Vengeance
as Brick Bardo (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It)
as Self
2022
In Search of Tomorrow
as Self - Interviewee
2018
Bunker of Blood Chapter 3: Death Heads: Brain Drain
2018
Deadly Dolls: Deepest Cuts
as (archive footage)
2012
Asylum of Darkness
as Detective Kesler
2012
MoniKa
as Thomas
2011
Shameless
as A.B. Fisher
2010
Abandoned
as Cooper
2010
Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen
as Tim
2009
War Wolves
as Frank Bergman
2009
Samurai Priest Vampire Hunter
as Samurai Priest
2009
Dual: The Lone Drifter
as Deston, Jared
2009
21 and a Wake-Up
2008
Wicked Lake
as Jake
2008
God's Ears
as Uncle Steve
2007
Urban Decay
as Detective Thompson
2007
Blue Lake Butcher
as Marshall Lex
2006
Charles Band's Evil Bong
as Jack Deth
2006
Christmas Do-Over
as Arthur
2006
A.I. Assault
as Admiral Harrison
2006
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
as Arnie Swift
2006
Left in Darkness
as Joe
2006
Sasquatch Mountain
as Eli Van Cleef
2006
Forget About It
as Arizona Al
2006
Bottoms Up
as Aj Mancini
2006
The Making of: Evil Bong
2005
Aliens Gone Wild
as Jack Deth (archive footage)
2005
Final Approach
as Capt. Noonan
2005
Sci-Fi Slaughter
as Jack Deth (archive footage)
2005
Hell to Pay
as Reverend
2005
Swarmed
as Phineas Washburn
2004
To Kill a Mockumentary
as Will
2004
Paparazzi
as Uniformed Officer
2003
Air Marshal
as Sen. Chambers
2003
Cliché
as Chief Jackson
2002
Gale Force
as Philip Edwards
2002
Project Viper
as Sheriff Morgan
2002
Shoot or Be Shot!
as Uncle Bill
2002
Fanalysis
as Self
2002
Ocean Park
as Mike
2001
Unseen Evil
as Ranger Chuck MacNeil
2001
Gangland
as Dr. Adams
2001
They Crawl
as Exterminator
2001
Devil's Prey
as Sheriff
2001
The District
as Colonel Carl
2000
The Princess and the Barrio Boy
as Monsignor O'Dell
2000
Submerged
as Owen Cantrell
2000
The Angry Beavers
as Dad/Slap Johnson (voice)
1999
Last Chance
as Sam
1999
Red Team
as William Heywood
1999
Suckers
as Detective Laughlin
1999
Dirt Merchant
as Jack
1999
Malevolence
as Mr. Williams
1999
Crossfire
as Crane
1999
Crusade
as Senator McQuate
1999
The Parkers
1999
The Angry Beavers
1999
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
as Mr. Alcerro
1998
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
as Hoodlum
1998
Detour
as Mel Kiner
1998
Together and Alone
as Daddy
1998
Border to Border
as Poet
1998
Ally McBeal
as Mr. Daley
1998
Sliders
as MacArthur Mallory
1998
The Magnificent Seven
as Guy Royal
1998
Arli$$
as Kit Bellew
1997
Escape from Atlantis
as Liam Gallagher
1997
Blast
as Police Commissioner
1997
When Time Expires
as Rifkin Koss
1997
Renegade
as Sheriff
1997
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
as Woody Samms
1997
Sherman Oaks
as Archelino
1996
Nemesis 3: Time Lapse
as Farnsworth 2
1996
Kid Cop
as Arnold Downey
1996
Back to Back
as Thomas
1996
Pacific Blue
as The Angel
1996
Xena: Warrior Princess
as Meleager the Mighty
1996
Viper
as Hanson Dekker
1996
Dave's World
as Minister
1996
The Sentinel
as Ben Crilly
1995
Heatseeker
as Oldest Elder
1995
Spitfire
as Rex Beechum
1995
Dominion
as Fitz
1995
Legend
1995
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Mitchell Bolton
1995
Land's End
as Dave 'Thunder' Thornton
1994
Trancers 4: Jack of Swords
as Jack Deth
1994
Trancers 5: Sudden Deth
as Jack Deth
1994
Hong Kong 97
as Jack McGraw
1994
The Cisco Kid
as Lundquist
1994
Natural Causes
as The Westerner
1994
Fleshtone
as Buddy Fields
1994
Viper
as Lyle Hinkle
1993
Brain Smasher... A Love Story
as Black
1993
Knights
as Farmer Sitting at Campfire (uncredited)
1993
The Harvest
as Steve Mobley
1993
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys
as Brick Bardo
1993
Die Watching
as Detective Lewis
1993
Eddie Presley
as Shock Comic
1993
Silk Stalkings
1993
Sirens
as James "Buddy" Zunder
1992
Nemesis
as Farnsworth
1992
Trancers III
as Jack Deth
1992
Bad Channels
as Dollman
1992
Stringer
1992
Stringer
as Jack Mitchell
1992
Nurses
1991
Trancers II
as Jack Deth
1991
Videozone: The Making of "Dollman"
1991
Dollman
as Brick Bardo
1991
Videozone: The Making of "Trancers II"
as Self
1991
Intimate Stranger
as Malcolm Henthoff
1991
The Golden Girls
as Stevie
1991
Good & Evil
1990
Air America
as Babo
1990
Vietnam Texas
as Max
1990
The Flash
as Jay Allen
1990
Murder, She Wrote
as Bert Rodgers
1990
The Flash
as Jay Allen
1989
Who's Harry Crumb?
as Vince Barnes
1989
Moonlighting
as Brock Ash
1989
Major Dad
1989
TV 101
as Dave Treadwell
1989
21 Jump Street
as Principal Gordon Brooks
1988
The Wrong Guys
as Tim
1988
The Incredible Hulk Returns
as Jack LeBeau
1988
Trancers: City of Lost Angels
as Jack Deth
1988
Pulse Pounders
as Jack Deth (Trancers sequence)
1988
A Tiger's Tale
as Lonny
1988
Hunter
as Mule Mulelowski
1987
Near Dark
as Loy Colton
1987
Cameo by Night
as Damon Rhoades
1987
Cherry 2000
as Lester
1987
Glory Years
as Jack Sanders
1987
St. Elsewhere
as Ebenezer Wright
1987
Late Night with David Letterman
as Self
1987
Tour of Duty
as Sgt. Aubrey Decker
1987
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
as Jerry Baskin
1986
Iron Eagle
as Col. Ted Masters
1986
The B.R.A.T. Patrol
as Maj. Dan Hackett
1986
Ratboy
as Alan Reynolds
1986
The Twilight Zone
as (segment "Take My Life...Please!")
1986
Hunter
as Police Sgt. Harry Traynor
1986
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Maj. Dan Hackett
1985
Zone Troopers
as The Sarge
1985
Volunteers
as John Reynolds
1985
Cinderella
as Royal Advisor
1985
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
as Brom Bones
1985
Tall Tales & Legends
as Brom Bones
1985
Faerie Tale Theatre
as Royal Advisor
1985
Murder, She Wrote
as Clyde Pitts
1984
Trancers
as Trooper Jack Deth
1984
Rhinestone
as Barnett Kale
1984
His Mistress
as Tom Goodman
1984
Hill Street Blues
1984
Hunter
as Police Det. Gil Glasgow
1983
Uncommon Valor
as Charts
1983
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
as Rhodes
1983
The Osterman Weekend
as Motorcycle Cop
1983
Gun Shy
as Theodore Ogilvie
1982
Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again
as Dr. Lanyon
1982
Honkytonk Man
as Highway Patrolman
1982
Some Kind of Hero
as Cal
1982
St. Helens
as Sheriff Wayne Temple
1982
Bare Essence
as Billy
1981
Golden Gate
as Frank Nightingale
1981
Take This Job and Shove It
as Ray Binkowski
1981
The Two of Us
as Reggie Cavanaugh
1981
Nero Wolfe
as Brian Stoner
1980
Carny
as Doubles
1980
Fade to Black
as Jerry Moriarty
1980
Angie
1979
Diary of a Young Comic
as Lucifer
1979
The Associates
1979
Fantasy Island
as Lance Reynolds
1978
Remember My Name
as Jeff
1978
Record City
as Marty
1978
A Wedding
as Russell Bean
1978
Hawaii Five-O
as Mik Chandler
1978
Starsky & Hutch
as Phil
1977
Which Way Is Up?
as Tour Guide
1977
Benny & Barney: Las Vegas Undercover
as Barney Tuscom
1977
Terraces
as Steve
1977
Quark
as Gene
1977
All That Glitters
as Sonny Packer
1976
The Selling of Vince D'Angelo
as Sen. Pete Harisson
1976
Car Wash
as Marsha's Blond Date
1976
Laverne & Shirley
1976
Cos
1976
City of Angels
1976
Harry O
as Reporter
1975
Mannix
as Rusty
Celluloid Wizards in the Video Wasteland: The Saga of Empire Pictures
as Self